NFL draft: Seahawks trade their 2nd-round pick to Detroit

RENTON — The Seattle Seahawks chose not to make a selection with their second-round pick (No. 57 overall) on Friday, instead trading it along with a fifth-round pick and a seventh-round pick to the Detroit Lions for a third-round pick (No. 75), a fourth-round pick (No. 107), a fifth-round pick (No. 154) and a seventh-round pick (No. 205).

That means Seattle’s only pick of Friday’s second and third rounds will come at No. 75 in the third round instead of No. 57 in the second round. Detroit used that pick to select Illinois running back Mikel Leshoure.

The trade isn’t much of a surprise, because Seahawks general manager John Schneider indicated two weeks ago that he wasn’t happy about not having a third-round pick, and he said he had confidence that his staff could do some damage with more middle-round picks. Seattle traded its original 2011 third-rounder to the San Diego Chargers last offseason as part of the deal to acquire quarterback Charlie Whitehurst.

The Seahawks now own one pick in the third round (No. 75), two in the fourth (Nos. 99 and 107), two in the fifth (Nos. 154 and 156), one in the sixth (No. 173) and two in the seventh (Nos. 205 and 242).

So essentially, Seattle and Detroit swapped relatively equal fifth and seventh-rounders straight across, and the Seahawks turned their second-round pick into a third-rounder and a fourth-rounder.